South Korea's Korea Communications Commission and National AI Strategy Committee held a policy meeting on March 27 to discuss public-discourse infrastructure in the AI era.

The two bodies agreed that public discourse is more than a democratic institution. They described it as core infrastructure for an AI era in which public knowledge, judgment, and social context become strategic data assets.

Officials said stronger collaboration with private platforms is needed to offset the limits of relying on global platforms and to secure domestically rooted data for sovereign AI development.

They also discussed policy responses to generative-AI misuse, including misinformation and deepfakes, along with broader efforts to raise AI literacy and public decision-making capacity.

Commission leaders said the goal is to support a responsible AI ecosystem while keeping direct government intervention limited enough to preserve private-sector autonomy and innovation.

The meeting framed digital public discourse as both a civic priority and a strategic input for Korean foundation-model development, linking media policy more directly to national AI competitiveness.